Meeting the Maker of Film About Polish Rescuers of Jews

New York, NY, January 31, 2011 ... A recent
commemoration at the Polish Consulate in New York City gave the Polish American
Congress the opportunity to meet and greet Menachem Daum (center), the producer
and director of the film, "Hiding and Seeking."

Shown with Mr. Daum are Chet Szarejko (left), vice president and Frank
Milewski, president of the Downstate New York Division of the Congress.

"Hiding and Seeking" tells the story of a Jewish family (Daum's) which
travels to Poland nearly sixty years after the end of the Holocaust.

The purpose of the trip is to thank a Polish Catholic family who saved the
life of three Jewish brothers, one of whom was Daum's father-in-law, during the
German occupation of Poland in World War II. The three brothers were hidden and
protected by the Mucha family inside their barn in Dzialoszyce, Poland for more
than two years and survived the Holocaust as a result.

Mr. Daum felt his family's trip to Poland was needed because his wife's
father never got around to thanking the Mucha family for hiding him and
preventing the Germans from killing him and his brothers.

What also troubled Mr. Daum was the prejudice his own sons held against the
Polish people. He wanted them to personally meet the Poles who endangered
themselves in the process of saving their grandfather's life. In occupied
Poland, the official German orders were to kill any Pole who helped a Jew.

Mr. Daum began filming "Hiding and Seeking" on his first trip to Dzialoszyce
in 2002 and completed it in 2004. He also made sure Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial acknowledged the heroism of the Muchas by designating them
"Righteous Gentiles." It was a heartfelt expression of Jewish gratitude for the
compassion of Polish Catholics who risked their life to save the life of the
three Jewish brothers.

"Jewish history and Polish history are inextricably intertwined," said Daum
"and it has made it increasingly clear to me that Poles and Jews are not at all
that different from one another and share many important values."